Graduate Courses
This is a broad list of classes offered through the Department (organized by geographic area) and is continuously being updated. We encourage prospective graduate students to visit faculty webpages and inquire about courses in their specific areas of interest.
AFRICA
HISB 6970 - Gender in Africa
Elisabeth McMahon
HISB 6970 - History of Development in Africa
Elisabeth McMahon
ASIA
HISC 6120 - History of Women in China and Japan
Brian DeMare
HISC 6210 - The PRC: China under Communism
Brian DeMare
HISC 6980 - Control and Resistance in Imperial China
Brian DeMare
ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL
HISA 7000 - Seminar in Classical, Byzantine and Medieval Numismatics
Kenneth W. Harl
HISA 7020: Proseminar in Late Medieval History
Faculty
HISA 6000 - Seminar in Select Topics in Greek History
Kenneth W. Harl
HISA 6010 - Seminar in Select Topics in Roman History
Kenneth W. Harl
HISA 6020 - War and Power in Ancient Greece
Kenneth W. Harl
HISA 6050 - The Italian Renaissance
F. Thomas Luongo
HISA 6090: Seminar in Select Topics in Byzantine History
Kenneth W. Harl
HISA 6230 - Medieval Cities
F. Thomas Luongo
HISA 6250 - Medieval Religious Culture
F. Thomas Luongo
HISA 6270 - Women and Gender in the Middle Ages
F. Thomas Luongo
EUROPE
HISE 6050 - The Italian Renaissance
F. Thomas Luongo
HISE 6100 - Renaissance and Reformation, 1450-1660
James M. Boyden
HISE 6330 - Imperial Spain, 1469-1716
James M. Boyden
HISE 6350 - Crime and Punishment in Hanoverian England
Linda Pollock
HISE 6360 - English Civil War
Linda Pollock
HISE 6370 - Seminar in Early Modern England
Linda Pollock
HISE 6510 - The Russian Revolution, 1900-1924
Samuel C. Ramer
HISE 6520 - Immigration and Identity in Contemporary France
Kathryn Edwards
HISE 6511 - Stalin's Russia, 1924-1953
Samuel C. Ramer
HISE 6512 - In Stalin's Shadow: The Soviet Union, 1953-1991
Samuel C. Ramer
HISE 6910 - Jewish Life and Culture, 1750-
Marline Otte
HISE 6910 - Postwar German Cultures
Marline Otte
HISE 6910 - Turks, Jews and Other Germans
Marline Otte
HISE 6910 - The Two Germanies: 1945-
Marline Otte
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN
HISL 7610 - Seminar in Comparative History of the Americas
Faculty
HISL 7720 - Seminar in Modern Latin America
Faculty
HISL 7750 - Seminar in Central America
Justin Wolfe
HISL 7610 - Comparative Slavery
Laura Rosanne Adderley
HISL 7830 - Historiography of Colonial Latin America
Faculty; Kris Lane, Guadalupe García
HISL 7840 - Historiography of Modern Latin America
Faculty; Justin Wolfe, Felipe Cruz
HISL 6600 - Peasants, Rebellion and the State in Latin America
Justin Wolfe
HISL 6610 - Modernity and Its Discontents in Latin America
Justin Wolfe
HISL 6740 - The City in Latin America
Guadalupe García
HISL 6740 - History of Brazil
Felipe Fernandez Cruz
HISL 6740 - History of Science and Technology
Felipe Fernandez Cruz
HISL 6750 - Africans in the Americas: Comparative Social and Cultural History of the African Diaspora
Laura Rosanne Adderley
HISL 6780 - Major Themes in Carribean History Africans in the Americas: Comparative Social and Cultural History of the African Diaspora
Laura Rosanne Adderley
HISL 6850 - United States-Latin American Relations
Justin Wolfe
HISL 6910 - Crime, Violence, and Rebellion in Latin America
Felipe Cruz
MIDDLE EAST
HISM 6110 - Religion and Nationalism in the Modern Middle East
Yigit Akin
HISM 6210 - Modern Turkey: Past and Present
Yigit Akin
HISM 6310 - The Ottoman Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East
Yigit Akin
HISM 6410 - State and Society in the Modern Middle East
Yigit Akin
UNITED STATES
HISU 7450 - Seminar in American Political History
Faculty
HISU 7570 - Seminar in United States Diplomatic History
Jana K. Lipman
HISU 7730 - Atlantic Sense/Sensibility
Emily Clark
HIST 7930 - Household Gender Sexuality
Linda Pollock
HISU 6260 - New Directions in Women's History
Karissa Haugeberg
HISU 6270 - American Disasters
Andy Horowitz
HISU 6490 - Sexuality and the Advent of Modern American Culture
Faculty
HISU 6510 - Recent U.S. from 1945 to the Present
Faculty
HISU 6540 - African-American Cultural History
Laura Rosanne Adderley
HISU 6620 - The New South, 1865-Present
Randy J. Sparks
HISU 6630 - US Labor and Migration
Jana Lipman
HISU 6750 - Africans in the Americas: Comparative Social and Cultural History of the African Diaspora
Laura Rosanne Adderley
HISU 6850 - United States-Latin American Relations
Justin Wolfe
HISU 6930 - American Revolutions
Emily Clark
HISU 6930 - US Empire Since 1898
Jana K. Lipman
HISU 6910 - Twentieth Century America
Andy Horowitz
HISU 7620 - Atlantic World Historiography
Emily Clark
GENERAL HISTORY
HIST 7120 - Advanced Historical Thinking
Linda Pollock
GRADUATE COURSE REQUIREMENTS
HIST 7001 - Seminar in Historical Practice
Faculty
HIST 7003 - Historiography and Methodology (I)
Faculty
HIST 7005 - Historiography and Methodology (II)
Faculty
HIST 7006 - Intermediate Historical Writing
Faculty
HIST 7007 - Advanced Historical Writing
Faculty
HIST 7008 - Professional Development and Documentation
Faculty